Christina Kent

Frontloading for English Language Learners PreK-K.

1. How does Ms. Ngan teach vocabulary in a variety of different ways?
   1. Ms. Ngan is a pre-school teacher who teaches a larger group of Asian students. In order to teach these students new vocab, she introduces the vocab term by first describing characteristics of the term (i.e. something that goes oink oink or ruff ruff). Following she uses a uses a prop (i.e. a pig, dog) to emphasis the term she would like the students to learn. Ms. Ngan uses repetition as well.
2. What strategies does Ms. Ngan use to engage students in the read aloud?
   1. Ms. Ngan uses what is called total physical response (TPR). TPR involves the students in body movement that helps keep the student engage with the book. In addition, she continues to use the props as well as introduces pictures cards to expand on vocab learning/teaching.
3. How does incorporating movement help students learn vocabulary?
   1. Ms. Ngan incorporating numerous opportunities for movement in her classroom. Incorporating movement can be a very effective in teach students vocab. Movement allows for the student to get hands on experience learning the new vocab. Not only does movement teach students about the vocab term, it helps keep the students engaged in the learning of the new vocab.

1. She uses TPR (Total Physical Response)

2. By using flashcards, props, and stuffed animals. She also engages them in critical thinking by asking them to predict,

3. Incorporating movement helps by getting them (students) engaged (Active participation)

1) Ms. Ngan uses props like stuffed animals to introduce vocabulary prior to the story and repeats the vocabulary many times with the children to emphasize. 

2) Ms. Ngan engages the students during her read aloud by using TPR.  She pulls back out the props when the word arises in the story.  She also has the student predict what will happen next in the story. 

3) Ms. Ngan uses TPR by having the students act out different vocabulary in the story.  For example, she has the students act out "silly" by making a silly face or has them play leapfrog to better understand what leap means. 

Ms. Ngan teaches vocabulary in multiple ways. These include using props to demonstrate words and actions, repetition of words and what actions are associated with this new vocabulary, then asks the students to act out the vocabulary word (making silly face to demonstrate definition of silly) via total physical response. She helps keep the students engaged in the story by encouraging them to predict what will happen next or why she did what she did. She then does movements in front of the children and even has them do it. Finally to help learn the vocabulary she includes a flashcard with the word in english and mandarin as well as a picture. Movements help the students learn the vocabulary because it gives an anchor point for what it is. The students now have attached an action to the new word, helping define it by remembering doing something, not just memorizing words telling what it is.

Ms. Ngan gets the students attention by using props. Ms. Ngan repeats the vocabulary for the children to learn successfully.

Ms. Ngan uses picture cards to engage the students and to reinforce vocabulary

Incorporation movements encourgages students to engage in learning